| Date: | 1933 |
| Colliery: | Backworth, Maude |
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| Cause: | Crushed by trucks on surface |
| Lives Lost: | 1 |
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A wagon attendant was killed at Backworth "Maude" Colliery, Northumberland. After lowering two loaded trucks for a short distance down a screens siding dipping 1 in 100, with a view to coupling them to a set of five loaded 4-ton hopper or "chauldron" wagons, deceased was found crushed between the buffers of the last chauldron wagon and the first truck. It is surmised that the brakes of the truck were not used as the gradient was so slight and that, whilst deceased was leaning between the wagon and the truck to couple them, the truck moved forward. One of the couplings of the chauldron wagons consisted of a shackle with loose pin, and the use of a coupling pole was therefore impracticable, but the wagons can be coupled or uncoupled by a person leaning over the buffers. Care should have been taken to see that the brakes were pinned down before attempting to couple the truck. Special instructions were afterwards given to this effect.
| Source: | 1933 Mines Inspectors Report |
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